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NEW YORK — Kobe Bryant won't play in Sunday's All-Star game, his season already over because of a shoulder injury. Dwyane Wade will also skip it because of a sore hamstring. Carmelo Anthony is here, a reasonable expectation because the New York Knicks are his team, but he can't shake the lurking possibility of season-ending surgery on a troublesome knee. The sun is getting dimmer for some of the NBA's bigger names, the 30-something clan yielding quickly to the kids born in the '90s: Anthony Davis, John Wall, Damian Lillard, Kyrie Irving, DeMarcus Cousins and Klay Thompson. They're the ones scoring 37 points in a quarter (Thompson), resurrecting...

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Kevin Love tied a career-best with eight 3-pointers for 24 points and LeBron James added 19 points and 11 assists as the Cleveland Cavaliers rallied in the second half to beat the Detroit Pistons 102-93 on Tuesday night. Love fell just one short of...

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NEW YORK — Pau Gasol sat in a chair behind a table surrounded by people holding microphones, cameras and recorders. Questions were shouted to him in English and Spanish, demanding instantaneous eloquence.
In some regards, Friday could have been like many...

Before Derrick Rose turned Thursday night's 113-98 victory over the Cavaliers into his own personal All-Star Game, the teammates who will represent the Bulls at the annual extravaganza stood proudly at midcourt.
Jimmy Butler, dressed in white slacks...

NEW YORK — Kyle Korver is a first-time All-Star.
Think about that for a second: In his 12th season, turning 34 next month, the former Bulls guard is getting better as his career progresses.
"It's really amazing," Korver said. "I've...

Derrick Rose drove hard to the rim and heard those familiar "MVP! MVP!" chants from the crowd. The star point guard was in top form, and so were the Bulls. Rose scored 30 points, and Chicago handed Cleveland just its second loss in 16 games,...

Seconds before the opening tip, LeBron James pulled Chris Bosh close and tightly hugged his former teammate. The pleasantries ended there. From then on, James treated the Miami Heat like any other team. James scored 18 points against his former...

NEW YORK George Karl is an NBA coaching construction supervisor. He builds things. He takes blueprints players and schemes and theories and puts them on paper, puts them together and transforms one losing franchise after another. After all these...

Who said there aren't meaningful regular-season games in the NBA's dog days of January?
"There's this thing where people overlook practice, they overlook the regular season; 'The home court's not that important,'" Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau...

The Bulls are 11-7 in Christmas Day games in franchise history.
Here, in chronological order, are the Tribune’s nominations for the five most memorable games. Proving how difficult this selection process became, the 1993 and 1994 vintages got lumped...

Close to three weeks into Bulls' training camp and it still feels odd to type Advocate Center rather than Berto Center.
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Joakim Noah’s breakthrough season received another accolade Wednesday.
Already honored as the NBA’s Defensive Player of the Year and leading vote-getter for the All-Defense team, Noah earned first-team All-NBA status with Kevin Durant, LeBron James,...

A wild Wednesday passed with the NBA's free-agent moratorium ending, LeBron James' future in limbo, Carmelo Anthony likely announcing his return to the Knicks on Thursday and the Bulls focused on Pau Gasol.
Twitter somehow survived.
Though the Bulls had...

The Bulls released their summer-league roster for play that begins Saturday night in Las Vegas against the Clippers.
But the practices are are far more important than the games.
Derrick Rose participated Tuesday night in the first session of a three-day...

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Occasionally seen sitting courtside at Chicago Bulls games, Mayor Rahm Emanuel is a basketball fan. So it stands to reason Emanuel is excited for Chicago to host the World Basketball Festival that Nike, the Jordan brand and USA Basketball is...